PHIL315- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 28 pages long!)

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL315
• Professor: Richard Hanley

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How we refer to things: definite description, pronouns, action / pointing. Time line of things: t0 t1. If you say lump exists at t0 (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot statue, the(cid:374) (cid:455)ou a(cid:396)e sa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g the lu(cid:373)p is(cid:374)"t the sa(cid:373)e object as statue. (cid:862)puzzle of (cid:272)oi(cid:374)(cid:272)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) both objects are existing at the same time, in the same place, etc. Peter vaninwage(cid:374) (cid:271)elie(cid:448)es i(cid:374) (cid:862)si(cid:373)ples(cid:863), (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ial o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts e(cid:454)ist. Living cells and organisms, according to vaninwagen, are the only simple compensate objects. Translate b/w sentences of english and sentences in a formal language written in symbols. Examples of the language: (cid:862)natha(cid:374) is tall(cid:863, t property of being tall, n nathan, = tn = nathan is tall. Property constants can also come in relational form: (cid:862)natha(cid:374) is talle(cid:396) tha(cid:374) ja(cid:272)o(cid:271)(cid:863, = tnj. No name sentences: need quantifiers to bound the variables, = universal quantifier (strictly speaking; most systems of logic let you leave out the universal quantifier, = existential quantifier, connectives.